Martina Hingis

Two very different cities in eastern and southern Europe — Kosice, Slovakia, and Marseille, France — begin their yearlong tenures as official European Capitals of Culture in 2013, a tradition dating to 1985. The two co-Capitals of Culture share little in terms of geography or history. But Marseille and Kosice will be linked together in September by a special round-trip performance-art train, which will make festive stops at cities along the way. With 80 artists on board, the train departs Kosice Sept. 15, pulls over for an all-day festival in Budapest (Sept. 16), rolls on to Ptuj, Slovenia, and Venice for all-day festivals on Sept. 18 and 20, respectively, and pulls into...

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Two very different cities in eastern and southern Europe — Kosice, Slovakia, and Marseille, France — begin their yearlong tenures as official European Capitals of Culture in 2013, a tradition dating to 1985.
The two co-Capitals of Culture share little in...